Please spay and neuter your pets! While your newborn pets are cute, failing to do this allows your little darlings to add to the population of homeless animals. Adopt pets from your local animal rescues/shelters, there are plenty of animals just waiting for a home.

Too cute!! We've been trying to train our Basenjis for ages to pick up their bowls. They're too smart, they just walk away and ignore us until we feed them because we're in a rush to get done in the morning.

Be careful with this. We trained our Golden to do it...not realizing that, since he doesn't like eating in the kitchen alone, he'll pick up his bowl and bring it out into the living room with the rest of the family, food spilling along behind him.

EDIT - To be fair...he would then go back and eat all that food, following it back into the kitchen like a trail of breadcrumbs. Should have trained him to take the bowl back into the kitchen with him once it was empty. Damn. Missed opportunity.

My dog is a bit odd. She only eats enough to not feel hungry, then leaves the rest. I just top her bowl off every few days, and she eats a tiny bit a few times a day. She's skinny but not too skinny, perfectly fit.

All other dogs I've ever had would probably eat themselves to death if they could open the drum containing their food...

I have a friend whose dog is like that as well... he just leaves his food bowl topped off at all times.

I think my beagle would explode if we did that... he eats his food, and then tries to eat our other dogs food, and then gives the cat the boot and tries to eat that food, and then eats any other possible food he could possibly gain access too.

Same with our Chocolate Lab, until we figured out he won't even touch stairs no matter what. Odd phobia, but now every food bowl is safe and sound at the top of a small staircase, except for his bowl :)

My cousins dog (hes like a bernese mixed with something not so monstrous) is absolutely terrified of this piece of foam.

They don't even use a gate anymore... they just put this like 1x2foot piece of foam flat in the middle of the door way and he won't go near it. It's pretty hilarious to watch too seeing as this dog probably weighs over 100lbs and could step over without even touching it.

my dog does this, then he started not eating for like a day or two so we put yogurt all over his food and hes been eating it like that for now. Just make sure when your pup gets older that these poor eating habits dont turn into a bigger issue then it is now

I dont know if it is a poor eating habit. From what the guy is describing it sounds like the dog is managing its own energy consumption to output. If the dog gets a lot of exercise then the dog will probably eat more food to compensate. If it's had relatively little exercise then it eats relatively little food.

yeah i have a bernese whos hips have been crappy for his whole life so maybe its just him not walking around as much as a healthy dog would. I just wanted to give him a heads up as i didnt like the feeling of my dog not wanting to eat, kind of scared me honestly but i cry over anything to do with my dog

My little pup is a rescue. I'm convinced he has nearly starved to death at least once. As a result he believes he must eat anything available. He will eat leaves when he's outside. He even knows which ones he likes and which ones he doesn't. One of the few times he ever had an accident in the house was when he managed to get into his food, and I guess he ate until he just couldn't hold it.

I have a Golden named Marley who eats like fucking crazy. He is very white and has a huge head. When he was a puppy he would demolish his food so fast it was like he was inhaling it! He still does to this day

I don't know what it is I did, but my dog does not go crazy when she's about to be fed like a lot of dogs do. My parents' dog will eat his entire bowl of food as fast as possible, but my dog likes to be casual about it. She'll eat a few bites, then walk over to see what I'm doing, then go back to it for a bit. Maybe it has to do with my erratic work schedule and the fact that she doesn't get fed every night at the same time.